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Author | : Gillian Harkins |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 2020-04-10 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1478009152 |
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In Virtual Pedophilia Gillian Harkins traces how by the end of the twentieth century the pedophile as a social outcast evolved into its contemporary appearance as a virtually normal white male. The pedophile's alleged racial and gender normativity was treated as an exception to dominant racialized modes of criminal or diagnostic profiling. The pedophile was instead profiled as a virtual figure, a potential threat made visible only when information was transformed into predictive image. The virtual pedophile was everywhere and nowhere, slipping through day-to-day life undetected until people learned how to arm themselves with the right combination of visually predictive information. Drawing on television, movies, and documentaries such as Law and Order: SVU, To Catch a Predator, Mystic River, and Capturing the Friedmans, Harkins shows how diverse U.S. audiences have been conscripted and trained to be lay detectives who should always be on the lookout for the pedophile as virtual predator. In this way, the perceived threat of the pedophile legitimated increased surveillance and ramped-up legal strictures that expanded the security apparatus of the carceral state.
Author | : Christopher Bartel |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2020-07-23 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1350121886 |
Download Video Games, Violence, and the Ethics of Fantasy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Is it ever morally wrong to enjoy fantasizing about immoral things? Many video games allow players to commit numerous violent and immoral acts. But, should players worry about the morality of their virtual actions? A common argument is that games offer merely the virtual representation of violence. No one is actually harmed by committing a violent act in a game. So, it cannot be morally wrong to perform such acts. While this is an intuitive argument, it does not resolve the issue. Focusing on why individual players are motivated to entertain immoral and violent fantasies, Video Games, Violence, and the Ethics of Fantasy advances debates about the ethical criticism of art, not only by shining light on the interesting and under-examined case of virtual fantasies, but also by its novel application of a virtue ethical account. Video games are works of fiction that enable players to entertain a fantasy. So, a full understanding of the ethical criticism of video games must focus attention on why individual players are motivated to entertain immoral and violent fantasies. Video Games, Violence, and the Ethics of Fantasy engages with debates and critical discussions of games in both the popular media and recent work in philosophy, psychology, media studies, and game studies.
Author | : Alison Attrill-Smith |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 779 |
Release | : 2019-05-21 |
Genre | : Human-computer interaction |
ISBN | : 0198812744 |
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The Oxford Handbook of Cyberpsychology explores a wide range of cyberpsychological processes and activities through the research and writings of some of the world's leading cyberpsychology experts. The book is divided into eight sections covering topics as varied as online research methods, self-presentation and impression management, technology across the lifespan, interaction and interactivity, online groups and communities, social media, health and technology,video gaming and cybercrime and cybersecurity.
Author | : Herman T. Tavani |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 0470509503 |
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Offering insights and coverage of the field of cyberethics, this book introduces readers to issues in computer ethics. The author combines his years of experience in the field with coverage of concepts and real-world case studies.
Author | : Jennifer Haley |
Publisher | : Northwestern University Press |
Total Pages | : 81 |
Release | : 2014-11-30 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0810130645 |
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The Nether, a daring examination of moral responsibility in virtual worlds, opens with a familiar interrogation scene given a technological twist. As Detective Morris, an online investigator, questions Mr. Sims about his activities in a role-playing realm so realistic it could be life, she finds herself on slippery ethical ground. Sims argues for the freedom to explore even the most deviant corners of our imagination. Morris holds that we cannot flesh out our malign fantasies without consequence. Their clash of wills leads to a consequence neither could have imagined. Suspenseful, ingeniously constructed, and fiercely intelligent, Haley’s play forces us to confront deeply disturbing questions about the boundaries of reality.
Author | : Marcus Schulzke |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2020-09-17 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 1978818564 |
Download Simulating Good and Evil Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Simulating Good and Evil shows that the moral panic surrounding violent videogames is deeply misguided, and often politically motivated, but that games are nevertheless morally important. Videogames should be seen as spaces in which players may experiment with moral reasoning strategies without inflicting real harm.
Author | : Garry Young |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 139 |
Release | : 2016-11-15 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 3319465953 |
Download Resolving the Gamer’s Dilemma Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book explores the gamer’s dilemma, which lies at the heart of theorising about the morality of certain video game content. The dilemma is as follows: given that gaming content involves virtual characters within a virtual environment, the moral permission of virtual murder would also appear to morally permit virtual paedophilia. Yet most gamers and members of wider society would not want to play, endorse, or find in any way morally acceptable the enactment of virtual paedophilia within a video game. Yet by accepting the moral permissibility of virtual murder they leave themselves vulnerable to having to accept the moral permissibility of virtual paedophilia. This book provides an incredibly thorough and systematic analysis and evaluation of the gamer’s dilemma, by considering the origins of the intuitions around the dilemma, and exploring whether they find support from traditional or contemporary moral theory and psychological research. The book will be great interest to academics and students of philosophy and psychology, as well as members of the wider public interested in video game violence and taboo enactments more generally.
Author | : Stephen Kershnar |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 169 |
Release | : 2015-05-20 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1498504477 |
Download Pedophilia and Adult–Child Sex Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book provides a philosophical analysis of adult–child sex and pedophilia. It looks at how the law should respond to such sex given the above analyses.
Author | : Garry Young |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 2014-09-11 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1317547225 |
Download Ethics in the Virtual World Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Ethics in the Virtual World examines the gamer's enactment of taboo activities in the context of both traditional and contemporary philosophical approaches to morality. The book argues that it is more productive to consider what individuals are able to cope with psychologically than to determine whether a virtual act or representation is necessarily good or bad. The book raises pertinent questions about one of the most rapidly expanding leisure pursuits in western culture: should virtual enactments warrant moral interest? Should there be a limit to what can be enacted or represented within these games? Or, is it all just a game?
Author | : Garry Young |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2021-01-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1793639205 |
Download Fictional Immorality and Immoral Fiction Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
It is commonplace for fictional content to depict immoral activities: the kidnapping of a politician, for example, or the elaborate theft of a national treasure, or perhaps the gruesome proclivities of a sadistic murderer. These and similar depictions can be found across a range of media, and in varying degrees of detail and realism. Fictional Immorality and Immoral Fiction examines potential conditions for transforming fictional immorality into immoral fiction, in order to establish what makes a depiction of fictional immorality and/or one’s engagement with it immoral. To achieve this aim, Garry Young analyzes fictional content, its meaning, one’s motivation for engaging with it, and the medium in which the fiction is presented (such as film, literature, theatre, video games) using philosophical inquiry. The end result is a systematic examination of fictional immorality, which contributes toward debates on the morality of depicting and engaging with fictional immorality, as well as the reach of censorship and other forms of prohibition, especially when the act depicted is of the kind that would be most egregious if carried out in reality.